Wireless network conectivity

Wheezy is lacking in some of the tools I was using.  This is annoying me becasue I found it to be much faster than Squeeze.

Still no luck with wireless though.

I'll give what you did a go later.

Mr P wrote:

 

you can remove the network manager if you want (sudo apt-get remove network-manager-gnome) and edit the /etc/network/interfaces file so it connects at boot (sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces)

 

this is how mine looks:-

 

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

 

auto wlan0

iface wlan0 inet static

address 192.168.0.50 (for example)

netmask 255.255.255.0 (for example)

gateway 192.168.0.1 (for expample)

wireless-essid wireless network name here

wireless-key wireless password here

 

iface eth0 inet dhep

 

 

cant help with killing the bluetooth process (sorry).

I guess on the last line you mean: ïface eth0 inet dhcp

I have Raspbain now .  I am testing these settings with my wireless card.

no luck .  I don't know why it won't work.  I thibk it has something to do with the ammount of power the device draws from the RPi.  I could be wrong but I have no other ideas.

If your ralink adaptor uses broadcom chipset you might want to look at linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43.

I had a similar issue with my linux netbook. For some reason the broadcom chipset requires firmware to be installed in addition to the drivers.

It can be found in firmware-b43-installer package . Not sure if its in the RPi repositories as I don't have mine to play with yet... :-(

If your adaptor uses Broadcom chipset you may need to install a piece of firmware to make it work. I had a similar problem with my Linux netbook that had Ralink wifi. It booted up but said that there was no WiFi as no firmware was loaded! After much searching the solution is at http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43.

The B43 package installs the firmware needed to run the Broadcom chipset. As its not GPL it can't be released with any Linux package, but is able to be extracted from the Windows driver. This package is already to go, just install!

I required the firmware-b43-installer package. Not sure if it's in the RasPi repositories as I haven't got mine to play with yet... :-( But the above site it fairly comprehensive!

Hope it works.

i have had issues with broadcom on various laptops using different distro's of linux, this is the best solution i have found so far. i also cant confirm at the moment if the b43 firmware is in the repositories. i will check tonight and see if it is.

i cant actually try this on the R-Pi as i dont have a USB wifi adapter with the broadcom chipset.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10527475&postcount=5

hope this helps.

Hello Everyone,

I have not got this (http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=YN8306) Wireless card to work yet.  But I have opened up the device and taken these pics:

From these images, (I think) The wireless model is the RT2770F.  Can someoneconfirm this please?  If so, Then I have the wrong drivers on the RPi (RT2870) so this could be an easy fix.

Did a bit of research and found out that the RT2770F uses the same drivers as RT2780.  Also, I read the website that was posted by Neill but the RPi did not want to install firmware-b43-installer.

But,  From that website I think I discovered how to (attempt to) install the drivers that came with the device.  When I tried:

The following error messages came-up:

Can anyone shed-some-light on what is wrong?  Why can't I just use the supplied drivers?  Why won't firmware-b43 install?

Can someone please see what is wrong with the .tar.bz2 file that came with the device (and gave the above failures).  Can someone play around with these files and see if you can find the problem. I can not post the files here but you can download them from: here or here .

I am reading the Makefile and the readme file that came with the device.  Can someone please explain what I have to do? (based on what the readme file is telling me.)

Extract from readme file:

1> $tar -xvzf RT2870_Linux_STA_x.x.x.x.tgz

    go to "./RT2870_Linux_STA_x.x.x.x" directory.

2> In Makefile

           set the "MODE = STA" in Makefile and chose the TARGET to Linux by set "TARGET = LINUX"

           define the linux kernel source include file path LINUX_SRC

           modify to meet your need.

3> In os/linux/config.mk

          define the GCC and LD of the target machine

          define the compiler flags CFLAGS

          modify to meet your need.

          ** Build for being controlled by NetworkManager or wpa_supplicant wext functions

             Please set 'HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y' and 'HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y'.

             => #>cd wpa_supplicant-x.x

             => #>./wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ira0 -c wpa_supplicant.conf -d

          ** Build for being controlled by WpaSupplicant with Ralink Driver

             Please set 'HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y' and 'HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=n'.

             => #>cd wpa_supplicant-0.5.7

             => #>./wpa_supplicant -Dralink -ira0 -c wpa_supplicant.conf -d

4> $make

          # compile driver source code

          # To fix "error: too few arguments to function ¡¥iwe_stream_add_event"

            => $patch -i os/linux/sta_ioctl.c.patch os/linux/sta_ioctl.c

5> $cp RT2870STA.dat  /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat

6> load driver, go to "os/linux/" directory.

    #[kernel 2.4]

    #    $/sbin/insmod rt2870sta.o

    #    $/sbin/ifconfig ra0 inet YOUR_IP up

    #[kernel 2.6]

    #    $/sbin/insmod rt2870sta.ko

    #    $/sbin/ifconfig ra0 inet YOUR_IP up

7> unload driver   

    $/sbin/ifconfig ra0 down

          $/sbin/rmmod rt2870sta

I don't understand the step that says: " define the linux kernel source include file path LINUX_SRC" .

Can someone help me please?